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| Title |
Multi-drug resistant toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 is persistent in water sources in New Bell-Douala, Cameroon
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| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-13-366 |
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| Authors |
Jane-Francis Tatah Kihla Akoachere, Thomas Njinuwoh Masalla, Henry Akum Njom |
| Abstract |
Cholera has been endemic in Douala, since 1971 when it was first recorded in Cameroon. Outbreaks have often started in slum areas of the city including New Bell. Despite the devastating nature of outbreaks, always resulting in high mortality and morbidity, a paucity of information exists on the reservoirs of the causative agent, V. cholerae, and factors maintaining its persistence. This has complicated disease prevention, resulting in frequent outbreaks of cholera. We investigated water sources in New Bell for contamination with V. cholerae O1 with pathogenic potential, to highlight their role in disease transmission. Antibiotic susceptibility pattern of isolates and the environmental factors maintaining its persistence were investigated. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 103 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 23 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 16% |
| Researcher | 15 | 14% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 12% |
| Unknown | 25 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 21 | 20% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 9% |
| Environmental Science | 8 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 7% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 8 | 7% |
| Other | 20 | 19% |
| Unknown | 32 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 August 2013.
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#6,441
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#173,207
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#109
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